go haywire en · VERB
Meanings
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(derogatory, informal) To become wildly confused, out of control, or mentally unbalanced.
If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are not the only one.
2025 November 1, Aisha Down, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| going haywire | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| went haywire | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gone haywire | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| goes haywire | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (6)
bg изперкам (Translations) · pl nawalić (Translations) · bg изперквам (Translations) · bg побъркам се (Translations) · bg побърквам се (Translations) · pl nawalać (Translations)